Shipping and Storage Information

Your order is shrink-wrapped and packed frozen in a carboard six-pack holder (with a custom-made wooden crate as a Gift Box option). Your order is carefully packed with frozen, composite, re-usable gel-packs in a thermal blanket, then packed in a thermal cooler and shipped via Fed Ex, ready to thaw and eat.

Our 'Colorado-Style' Southern Chow Chow is Shipped via FedEx Ground.

Each order is packed in bubble-wrap and packed in a durable shipping box.

Our Shipping Guarantee

Our greatest desire is to for you to receive the freshest, most delectable products you have ever tasted. If we fail to deliver your cheesecakes on time through no fault of yours, we will replace your order with our apology. However, we can only guarantee that your products will arrive on time and in good shape if the shipping address you enter is complete and correct and not a Post Office box. Repeat, with Fed Ex, we cannot ship to P.O. Boxes.Please double-check the spelling of the delivery address, and make sure that there is a designator (i.e., Street, Avenue, Place, Court, Circle, etc.). We take no responsibility for misplaced shipments due to an incomplete or incorrect address.We take great pains to ensure that your cheesecakes arrive in good shape! Your cheesecakes are frozen at –10° prior to shipping. The thermal wrap, Styrofoam shipping container and dry ice or gel packs keep your cheesecakes fresh for over 2 days. Most likely, your cheesecakes will be thawed by the time they arrive.Simply put your cheesecakes in your refrigerator (they are good up to 10-14 days) or refreeze (up to 6 months). Our 'Colorado-Style' Southern Chow Chow is shelf-stable for a minimum of one year, unopened in your pantry. Once opened, keep in your refrigerator, up to 2-3 weeks.

Our Delivery Schedule

We pay a lot of attention to the shipping schedule to ensure that your cheesecakes will arrive fresh and on time. Orders placed by Saturday at 5:00 p.m. (MST) will be shipped the following Monday or Tuesday via FedEx Overnight or 2nd Day Air, the 'Colorado-Style' Southern Chow Chow via FedEx Ground. We are willing to ship our 'Cheesecakes in a Jar' and Savory Craft Spreads on Wednesdays, but only via FedEx Overnight.

The deadline for ordering for the 2018 Holiday Season is Saturday, December 15th 2018, with your orders going out by Tuesday, December 18th, 2018,

Orders coming in after December 15th will not be shipped until Tuesday, January 8th, 2019.

When kept frozen, Decadence Gourmet ‘Cheesecakes in a Jar®’ have a freezer-life of four to six months. Once thawed, they have a refrigerated shelf-life of up to seven days. (Though we seriously doubt that once thawed, any has ‘lived’ that long!)

Our 'Colorado-Style' Southern Chow Chow is shelf-stable for a minimum of one year, unopened in your pantry. Once opened, keep in your refrigerator, up to 2-3 weeks.

Our cheesecakes have been tested at The Colorado State University Food Processing Lab and at Guarantek Lab in Denver, Colorado and we use the Food Processing program at Utah State University for our shelf-stable products.

Serving

There is not much in our world that cannot be improved and, yes, believe it or not, one can even try to improve our products.Some suggestions would be topping with flavor-infused whipped cream, or drizzle with some of your favorite syrups.But we still feel that our products can easily stand on their own flavor-profiles!

Our 'Colorado-Style' Southern Chow Chow has so many uses, check out the pages for some tasty recipes.